Corporate Islam Sharia and the Modern Workplace [Hardcover]

This compelling account offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation.Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam.Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam.Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam. Focusing on Muslims in Malaysia, Patricia Sloane-White argues that sharia principles in the region's Islamic economy produce a version of Islam that is increasingly conservative, financially and fiscally powerful, and committed to social control over Muslim and non-Muslim public and private lives. Packed with fascinating details, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Islamic politics and culture in modern life.1. Corporate Islam; 2. The scholar-elites of sharia: men of the mosque and the market; 3. The corporate elites of sharia; 4. Sharia divisions of labor: khalifah and God's 'human resources'; 5. How divisions of labor are gendered: sharia, women, and the priviliges of men; 6. Zakat and its transformations: a pillar of corporate Islam; 7. Islamic corporate social responsibility and the 'public good'; 8. Corporate lives, sharia, and the 'small Islamic state'.'This volume contributes a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of the corporation as a key site of Islamic moral production in late capitalism. Tracing the 'trajectory and emplacement' of Sharia in the modern Malaysian corporate workplace, SloanelSS